During Sunday's opening keynote at Oracle's OpenWorld 2012 San Francisco shindig, longtime server and operating system partner Fujitsu talked about a future "Athena" Sparc64 processor and related systems using it that will run Oracle's Solaris Unix variant and sport special instructions for speeding up Oracle databases. …

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Tuesday 2nd October 2012 06:33 GMT Anonymous Coward

The author spelled SPARC wrong again

Enough said...

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1. Tuesday 2nd October 2012 20:29 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
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Tuesday 2nd October 2012 09:54 GMT Ramazan

faster than anything

"By this time next year, that Sparc microprocessor will run the Oracle database faster than anything on the planet". Did he mean that SPARC will run Oracle faster than SPARC will run MySQL, PostgreSQL etc?

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1. Thursday 4th October 2012 10:47 GMT Kebabbert
  
  Re: faster than anything
  
  I think he meant "faster than any other cpu on the planet".
  
  Now where are all those IBM supporters claiming that SPARC64 is dead? :o)
  
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2. Thursday 4th October 2012 17:21 GMT Jesper Frimann
  
  Re: faster than anything
  
  Most like means that Oracle will have cancelled development on any other platform than SPARC, and demand that you sign your contracts with them in blood.
  
  // Jesper just kidding
  
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